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However, the increase in staff has only occurred in two CSIC research centers: ICMAB, and INCIPIT (Instituto de Ciencas del Patrimonio), from 9 to 35 members this latter one. Nevertheless, there has ...

... of grants should create around 1,750 jobs for postdocs, PhD students and other staff working in the grantees' research team. For more statistics, click here.
Summary of the FeMiT project
Robust disruptiv ...

... ers, students and staff members during the poster session and installations visit.
This year, we included a new activity: an informal meeting during the coffee break between the SAB members and the PhD fe ...

... we will present the project to the UAB students, we will carry out a roundtable about the image of women in audiovisual content, and some of our researchers will offer guided visits for our support staff. ...

... of Prof. Jean-Marie Tarascon she joined the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona belonging to CSIC, the Spanish National Research Council being part of the research staff since 1999 and deputy ...

... the work performed by the ICMAB staff, and particularly to the recently formed Gender Equality Committee, and an incentive to keep working in this direction!
Click here to see some photos of the event! ...

On Wednesday, 5 September, the ICMAB staff could bring their children, their grandchildren, and even their nephews and nieces to spend a morning at our centre full of scientific activities for another ...

... dL) and Global Health Institute of Barcelona (ISGlobal). The events are supported by the European Commission as part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, a programme to promote careers of European researc ...

On Wednesday, 5 September 2018, ICMAB will celebrate another edition of the Kids’ Day, the day in which staff and researchers from the institute are invited to bring their children for a morning of science ...

... discrimination, and the involvement of the Direction team and all the staff members in implementing positive actions. In addition, the adoption of "innovative measures" to eliminate and prevent discriminator ...

... and "Synthesis and characterization of an oxide thin film", which they carried out in our Scientific Platforms with the help of many of our technicians and research staff.
Once again, the UAB offe ...

... characterization for electronic and photovoltaic applications)
Thank you to all the researchers and staff who volunteered to organize the lab tour, and special thanks to Mariano Campoy-Quiles, member ...

Every year the CSIC acknowledges the staff members that have received awards or distinctions for their Scientific Merit from other institutions during the previous year. In this year's ceremony, held a ...

... n Program (Generació d'Idees), an initiative to provide tools to the research staff and PhD candidates in the creation of innovative solutions in the circular economy.
The first prize, awarded with 2, ...

... research programme at Diamond and at other facilities. The successful candidate will manage a team of beamline scientists and technical staff to support user operations and will lead the beamline’s instrumentation ...

... mid-afternoon, a lot of different activities were organized by many volunteers, so that everybody could particiapate and enjoy the day.
Most of the staff participated in many of the activities: ...

... both in Spain and in Europe.
The full body of SOMMa centres and units gathers more than 7,000 staff dedicated to research, graduates every year more than 500 PhD candidates, and perceives funding ...

On 8 March 2018, the International Women's Day, the ICMAB makes public the results of the survey performed to our staff during the week between 12 and 16 February, in the framework of the the Internationa ...

... quantity of women and men in our research center, since our centre is quite unique! Although still less than men, by the end of 2017, women represented a 42 % of the total staff. And this is what we wanted ...

... secondary school students, and raising awareness among our staff.
Some of the activities are listed below, or you can also download our program here.
ICMAB Seminar on Mileva Maric
On 9 February ...

This week ICMAB has reached the fantastic number of 5000 published papers written by its researchers! Congratulations to all of our researchers, who have worked and published at ICMAB, starting on 1986 ...

... he course is specially designed for the PhD and master students of the center, but is open to all the research staff, in general.
The main objectives of the course are to offer practical, organized ...

... Its left-handed counterpart, l-glucose, though, is not useful in human biology. “Chirality hadn’t been seen before in this electric structure,” said Elke Arenholz, a senior staff scientist at Berkeley ...

... lity these centres offer in recruiting and paying staff salaries, as well as the administrative and funding support for setting up new labs, has appealed to international researchers.
ICMAB has 5 ...

... (PRUAB), is to support research staff to follow their ideas and generate market solutions based on their research, by guiding them in the process of transformation of a research project into a business ...

... new facilities and laboratories. The SAB members had the chance to interact with our researchers, students and staff members during the poster session and installations visit. Additional private meetings ...

... 60 % of the total staff are men, and 40 % women, and the same proportion is kept for our research scientists, from which 40 are men and 26 are women.
Apart from Marie Skłodowska Curie, this is a goo ...

... factor of 6.24.
A total of 18 PhD theses were defended.
47 % of the PhD students were from abroad, and 32 % of the total ICMAB staff
ICMAB budget was nearly of 12 M€
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Links:
Website: https://resources.icmab.es/annualreport2016 ...

The 100xCiencia.2 Meeting, which will gather researchers and staff from 40 Severo Ochoa Research Centers and María de Maeztu Research Units, will take place on November 2-3, 2017, in Alicante. The registration ...

Màrius Tarrés Schüler, who did his PhD in the Inorganic Materials and Catalysis Laboratory, at ICMAB, under the supervision of Prof. Francesc Teixidor, has been awarded with the PhD special prize award ...

... about the research done at ICMAB!
The kids left the ICMAB with a certificate of "Future Scientist" and with a big smile on their faces.
We would really like to thank all the ICMAB researchers and staf ...

During the last 10-12 July, more than 50 members of ICMAB spent three days in Sant Feliu de Guíxols for the Nanoselect Network Of Excellence Annual Meeting 2017. The three days were filled with talks and ...

The second internal call of the Frontier Interdisciplinary Projects (FIP) within the FUNMAT Severo Ochoa programme has been resolved: 8 projects have been granted, out of the 18 proposals submitted in ...

The Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ) celebrated its XXXVI Biennial Meeting in Sitges from 25 to 29 June 2017. "The Biennial" (La Bienal) as it is known by the Spanish Chemical community, is the ...

... Time Resolution Using X-Rays".
Hendrik is a Staff Scientist in the X-ray Laboratory for Advanced Materials (XLAM) at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, USA. In his research, he is studyin ...

... esearch staff in 2005. Between 1999 and 2002 he was a visiting researcher at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Berkeley National Laboratory. Since 2014 he is a visiting researcher at New York University. ...

... Vidal-Gancedo and Gerard Tobías. Other ICMAB staff collaborated on the organization, communication and development of the summer school, which was evaluated very positively by the participants.
MATBIO201 ...

... a tailored programme of outreach, using the skills of staff to ensure our research is valued and accessible. Our aim is to provide opportunities for students of all ages to gain knowledge and understanding ...

... ICMAB celebrates its Anniversary. This year, we have organized a party at the same ICMAB building, with different activities for our staff: gimcana, Poker, chess, Party & Co., 3D holograms workshop, swing ...

... were announced. The winners were decided by popular vote by all the ICMAB staff, which could vote 5 photos of each category and 2 videos, during one week.
We are very happy, since the quality of the ...

... of future generations. Therefore, about one quarter of our staff are post-docs, post-graduates or apprentices. Altogether PSI employs 1900 people.
In the framework of the international fellowship program ...

We welcome applications from national and international candidates from many different disciplines and with a PhD or higher level to join our research staff. Please submit an application to join us through ...

... Or by click in "Request Service" in the SPM lab website.
There is a new closet to be used as sample exchange.
We hope that the new rules and procedures will benefit both technical staff and users.
Regards ...

... managers, communication and marketing, knowledge transfer, documentation)
• Managing the internal communication with the scientific staff and support in projects proposals, follow-up of the public calls ...

... as permanent staff and a total of about 200 researchers of many nationalities (> 30). Our research program and strategic plan is centred on “Smart FUNctional MATerials for social grand challenges” (FUNMAT). ...

Dr. Jorge Íñiguez from the ICMAB-CSIC has been appointed to be a Founding Member of the Editorial Board of Physical Review Applied, the newest Journal of the American Physical Society.
http://journals.aps.org/prapplied/staff ...

... meeting we offer the possibility to visit to the installations, perform some experiments in the Laboratories and interact with the technical staff for present/future needs of your group or company.
WEB: Nanoquim ...

On Tuesday, 6 November, the "Consejo de Política Científica, Tecnológica y de Innovación" (CPTI) from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities updated the new Map of the Singular Scientific ...

After another year, we look back and see how was this year's scientific research. More than 200 articles, which makes a total of more than 5,200 publications (remember that we reached the 5,000 this last ...

During 2018, ICMAB researchers have written more than 200 articles in international peer-review science journals of various disciplines: chemistry, physics, materials, nanotechnology, photonics, energy, ...

The international “Science Award Electrochemistry” from BASF and Volkswagen goes this year to Dr. Bryan McCloskey, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. ...

Last Friday, Anna was recognized by fem.talent with the TALENT EMERGENT 2014 award for her scientific career and her entrepreneurial activities in the company Osmoblue. She had been proposed by AMIT-CAT (Asociación ...

As already announced in July 2017, on Tuesday 3rd October, Pof. Anna Roig received the Albus Award 2017, by Grifols, to develop her project on "Albumin iron-oxide nanocages". The Awards Ceremony took place ...

Arnau Bertran Inglada, who did his bachelor's thesis at ICMAB under the supervision of Gerard Tobias (ICMAB, Solid State Chemistry Group) and Àlvar Sánchez (UAB, Physics Dept) has been awarded with the ...

The R&D project "ModifyIt!" presented by the team formed by Dr. Carlos A. García-González and Pedro López-Aranguren Oliver, young researchers from ICMAB-CSIC, was selected as one of the 25 most talented ...

David Amabilino has been awarded the Hermanos Elhuyar-Hans Goldschmidt Lectureship for 2011 (Premio Hispano-Alemán Hermanos Elhúyar-Hans Goldschmidt de 2011) an award presented jointly by the Royal ...

With his presentation "Fluorescent Organic Nanoparticles based on Inert Carbon Free-Radicals", the PhD Student Davide Blasi from ICMAB (CSIC) won last week the Best Short Talk Award at the XIXth Internation ...

Dr. Enikö György and Dr. Ángel Pérez del Pino have been awarded with the “International Association of Advanced Materials Scientist Medal (IAAM Scientist medal) for the year 2016” due to their notable ...

On April 22, Dr. Jaume Veciana received a Mention of Honor from the current President of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, during the celebration of the X Anniversary of the Center for Minimally Invasive ...

Dr. Alexandre Ponrouch from the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant and will receive 1.6 million € over the next five years in order to conduct ...

ESAS awards biannually three prizes to researchers under the age of 30 for outstanding work presented in person by poster or oral during the EUCAS Conference. One prize is awarded in each of the three ...

A large number of ICMAB researchers are among those researchers in Spain with high h-index in many different disciplines: Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Crystallography, Inorganic and Nuclear ...

A group of researchers lead by Dr. Clara Viñas, from the Inoganic Mateials & Catalysis Laboratory group at ICMAB, has recently published a paper on Chemistry-A European Journal that has been qualified ...

The July-September issue of the Revista Española de Física (Vol 31, No 3) includes a monogaph of 41 pages on Condensed Matter. Some ICMAB researchers have contributed in some of the articles.
You can ...

During 2016, as a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Magnetics Society, Josep Fontcuberta has delivered 60 talks in 56 research centers and universities and he has visited 56 different cities around four ...

Judith Molrà-Folch has been granted with a TECNIOspring Plus grant from ACCIÓ for the project "Fluorescent organic nanoparticles for Bioimaging", supervised by Dr. Nora Ventosa, from the NANOMOL group ...

Three ICMAB researchers have been granted with a Ramon y Cajal grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness.
Ignasi Fina, from the MULFOX group, in the area of Materials Science; ...

The ICMAB researcher Judith Guasch has been appointed Leader of a Max Planck Partner Group (Dynamic Biomimetics for Cancer Immunotherapy) in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research ...

María de la Mata has been selected to participate in the 65th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting , to be held from 28 June to 3 July 2015, in Lindau, Germany. Only the 650 most qualified young scientists can ...

Every year the CSIC acknowledges the staff members that have received awards or distinctions for their Scientific Merit from other institutions during the previous year. In this year's ceremony, held a ...

The European Institute of Molecular Magnetism, the chairman and the members of the Olivier Kahn Award International Jury are pleased to announce that the laureate of the fourth Olivier Kahn International ...

Martí Gich, ICMAB reseracher at the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites Group, has been awarded with a prestigious 2018 European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant (CoG) for his project entitled “Ferrites-by-design ...

NANOMOL Group has been accredited with the TECNIO certification as a Technology Developer Organization, until 2019. This TECNIO certification was created by the Government of Catalonia, through ACCIÓ. ...

The awardees with the Premis Ciutat de Barcelona 2017 have been known on February 1, 2018. The awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, February 15, at the Saló de Cent, in a ceremony presided by Ada ...

Prof. Jaume Veciana (ICMAB-CSIC/CIBER-BBN) has been honored with the Olivier Kahn Plenary Lecture given at the 16th International Conference on Molecule-Based Magnets (ICMM 2018), held on September 1-5, ...

Prof. Jordi Arbiol receives the EU40 Materials Prize, awarded by the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) in recognition to an outstanding contribution to materials research by a scientist under ...

As we already announced on July 2017, Mariona Coll, researcher at the Institute of Materials Science (ICMAB) in the SUMAN group, has been awarded with the Research Award L'Oréal-Unesco "For Women in Science" ...

Roberta Verrelli, granted with a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación fellowship, will work in the group of Solid State Chemistry, with M. Rosa Palacín, in the field of next-generation batteries. On the other ...

Between 18 and 22 June 2018, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington (UK) hosted the 6th WMRIF Workshop for Early Career Scientists. From ICMAB, Roberta Verrelli, Francesca Leonardi and Ignasi ...

"We have a host of editors with expertise in the area of renewables, including low-carbon energy conversion and storage, but we needed to bring on additional editorial expertise in the area of electrochemical ...

Dr. Mariona Coll, researcher at ICMAB, and Prof. Xavier Obradors, ICMAB Director, attended the awards ceremony of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Research Awards in Madrid. Mariona was awarded with one of the five ...

Laura López Mir, Doctor in Physics graduated at ICMAB, and Beatriz Espinosa, PhD researcher at ICTA, were awarded with the First Prize in the Program "Generació d'Idees", organized by the PRUAB and the ...

Gerard Tobias, Mariano Campoy-Quiles and Rosario Núñez have been successfully promoted to Research Scientists through a selective process by internal promotion, after a competitive test within the CSIC ...

Dr. José M. Muñoz and Dr. Francesca Leonardi, from the NANOMOL group, have been granted with a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship to continue their postdoctoral research under the supervision of Dr. Marta Mas-Torrent. ...